"BB" Quotes from Famous Books
... interminable tracts of pine, Within a temple stands an awful shrine, [145] By an uncertain light revealed, that falls On the mute Image and the troubled walls. Oh! give not me that eye of hard disdain 545 That views, undimmed, Ensiedlen's [Bb] wretched fane. While ghastly faces through the gloom appear, [146] Abortive joy, and hope that works in fear; [147] While prayer contends with silenced agony, [148] Surely in other thoughts contempt may die. 550 If the sad grave of human ignorance ... — The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth - Volume 1 of 8 • Edited by William Knight |